Episode 5: VALENTINES DAY!

Well here it is the most "loved" and hated day of the year!  personally I love it!  CHOCOLATE!!!

 but I have come to realize that there are 4 type of valentines day people;  1) the relationship person, 2) the  I don't care person,  3) the family valentines person, 4) the I hate valentines day person.

Im a #3, family valentines day!!  me and my family have a big dinner and give each other cards!  usually dad and mom with stay with us that night then they go out that weekend for a romantic dinner. 

for dinner the family had steak root vegetables and caesar salad, I had tuna and the root veggies!  

we had made red jello the night before and cupcakes with pink icing so we had that for desert.

the day before valentines day I made the members of my family all origami fortune tellers with a valentines day message inside. But I wasn't able to give it to them until after they all came home. 

 Unfortunately my mom wasn't able to come home until very late at night because one of our family members is in the hospital and she was with her till after dinner. 

my siblings were all out as well, Angus was at a class with his friends and Olivia was at Shakespeare class.

so it was just Joelene and I!!  we had a very fun day thou, crafts, dancing, barbies and the best of all pictures!!

we had a fun day!!  hope you had one as well!!

!!happy valentines day!!

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Episode 4

WOW!!  I feel like a failure!  I promised myself that I would write everyday and that hasn't happened. well then I have to make up for it!! last week I had a phone call from the Jacksonville art institute in response to my request for an info packet.  she wanted  to interview me as a international student. we talked for exactly 1hr 58minutes! I was so excited about the school and asked so many questions as well as concerns. she also talked to me about going to their sister school's in Vancouver or Calgary, I wouldn't have to pay as much tuition and "NO STUDENT VISA"!!  So now I have to find a major! 

I also have started to Vlog which so much fun. I'm able to show my life in video and in music. this Vlog is the first real snow day in victoria!!

 

I met a new little cousin, Zachary Samuel Schafer! He is the most adorable little boy, his hands are so small and his feet are as long as my thumb. I was able to make a cute star stuffie that I gave to him, its bigger then his head but bright yellow!

Well it finally started to warm up and I went on a 2 hour walk up on the hill above my house, with my dog Bennet and my little sis Joelene. I took this photo when we reached the top!

beautiful isn't it?

 thats what I see every morning!

My mom loves walking up that hill every Saturday...except the last one! she asked all of the family if we would help clean the yard. which includes weeding, raking, stick pick up and fence fixing. I had the best job of the bonfire!!  kids pick up leaves and sticks and I burn them! 

Since the wind was high and the fire was sucking it up the bon fire just kept going up!!

I also went to a dance,

bought a pizza for a good cause,

 and got a red streak in my hair.

so that is how my life has been going! 

And even thou I have had some really hard parts I'm getting along quite well! 

and anyway, when we meet a tiger in our life we must all look it right in the eye and follow Madeline's example and say "poopoo"!!

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Day 2: favourite animal.

Day 2: favourite animal.

I couldn't pick just one, so I picked three!

Alligator, Penguin and a Platypus!
It is a weird cobo but I just think that these animals are so cool!
A bird that doesn't fly, a beaver with a duck bill, and a 14FT lizard are pretty unique right?

hope you like it!

MOrgan!

30 day drawing challenge!

So I am addicted to a web site called stumbleupon, and I found the list of a drawing challenge. I decided to take the challenge!

so heres my first  drawing and the list if you are brave enough to take it up as well!!

Day 1 - Yourself

Day 2 - Favourite animal

Day 3 - Favourite Food

Day 4 - Favourite Place

Day 5 - Best Friend

Day 6 - Favourite Book

Day 7 - Favourite Movie

Day 8 - Favourite Animated Character

Day 9 - Favourite T.V Show

Day 10 - Favourite Candy

Day 11 - Turning point in your life

Day 12 - Most Recent Accomplishment

Day 13 - Favourite Comic

Day 14 - Favourite Fairytale

Day 15 - Family Picture

Day 16 - Inspiration

Day 17 - Favourite Plant

Day 18 - Just a Doodle

Day 19 - Something New

Day 20 - Something Orange

Day 21 - Something you Want

Day 22 - Something you Miss

Day 23 - Something you Need

Day 24 - A Couple

Day 25 - Scenery

Day 26 - Something you don’t like

Day 27 - Something you love

Day 28 - Anything you’d like

Day 29 - A place you want to go

Day 30 - A Conguration Banner for completing this challenge

hope you like it!

MOrgan

BUCKET LIST!

If you have any suggestions then please comment! ...just to let you know.. I'm deathly afraid of heights!

#1 Write a song.

#2 Learn to surf.

#3 Learn to play the piano.

#4 Write a novel.

#5 Get married.

#6 Start a successful small business.

#7 Attend the sky lantern festival in Thailand.

#8 Go on safari.

#9 Read all of Shakespeare's plays.

#10 Learn another language.

#11 Fire a pistol.

#12 Live in a foreign country for six months.

#13 Save someone's life.

#14 Learn to fly a plane. 

#15 Learn sign language.

#16 Become a vegetarian.

#17 Be at Time's Square for on New Year's Eve.

#18 Visit the Acropolis in Greece.

#19 Go to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

#20 Solve a Rubik's Cube.

#21 Restore a classic car.

#22 Visit the Great Wall of China.

#23 Sail around the world.

#24 Discover what makes you truly happy.

#25 Donate blood.

#26 Experience weightlessness.

#27 Master the art of Kung Fu. Like Kung Fu Panda. Like the Dragon Warrior.

#28 Horseback riding.

#29 help someone in need

#30  get onto Canadian Idol

#31 swim in the red sea

#32 fall in love

#33 backpack around Australia

#34 fall asleep in a field 

#35 sing in front of 1000 people

#36 go on a blind date

#37 see the northern lights

#38 send a message in a bottle

#39 dance to my iPod in a public place

#40 buy a house

#41 solve a crime

#42 design a Morgan barbie doll

#43 sleep under the stars

#44 visit the second wonders of the world

#45 road trip across Canada

#46 paint a house hot purple

#47 create a talent agency

#48 visit Japan

#49 swim with sharks

#50 drive route 66

#51 shout in a crowd

#52 sew a blanket

#53 paint a mural

#54 climb a volcano 

#55 sticky note a public bathroom

#56 create a house for struggling boys

#57 stomp on grapes

#58 dance in the rain!

#59 name a star

#60 learn how to use a pogo stick

#61 read all of the Agatha Christie's novels

#62 watch all National Geographic documentrees

#63 write a children's book

#64  have a role in a movie

#65 go ghost hunting

#66 see a platypus

#67 take up carving

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New Blog

Oh dear! My other blog had a melt down. I had at least a year on there and now its all gone! I am so sad that my hard work over a year was demolished.  So heres the cliffs notes version of what was on my other blog and a bit more.

I graduated in 2010 and wanted to take a year off to earn some money and figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life and where I want to go to university. In april 2011, I found out from a relative that her son who lives in Ottawa was looking for a nanny. I immediately jumped at the thought of me being a nanny for two little boys in the capital of Canada! and I was sure that I wouldn't have any difficulties with the kids, I have always had a baby in my extended family and was the one that held it at get togethers.

 I sent an email and heard back almost instantly that they would have me as there nanny.  I sorted out details, flights, packing. then on july15 2011, I flew out to the Ottawa airport and began my new adventure!

when I started my job I was a bit afraid. the first thing that I was afraid of was that I was in a city, and I didn't have any family or friends to support me or to talk to.  that changed pretty quickly thou!  I am a member of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, and where ever you move there is always a church to go to!  the YSA ward here has been a beam of light in one of my darkest places!

I've been lost, bored, sad, angry and a whole bunch of other negative feelings. but I always manage to laugh when I'm with them!

the city also grew on me! I didn't get lost as much, and I started to find many cool things around town.

As the months went by, I was getting better at my job but I started to feel sick and sad, all the time.

I didn't realize that the feelings I was having were the first stage of minor depression. One day I just had a melt down. crying, couldn't talk, couldn't think and felt so sick. I locked myself in my room for the weekend. After I calmed down I had a talk with my employer and he told me that I should listen to my feelings.

So when november rolled around I decided to give my months notice. not because it was a bad job, but that I am only turning 19 in Dec and being responsible for two kids is hard. and i didn't want another melt down like that!

So there it is, I'm moving!  I'm very excited to be home with my family and my puppy! but I'm also torn apart that I will be leaving, who I believe are my best friends in the ward.

I leave December 18th. And I still have to send all of my stuff home.

 Theres the cliff notes! And I still have to upload my Bucket list!

(sigh).......well here goes! another blog. hopefully it will last longer than the last!

Till next time!

MOrgan!